Wednesday, April 27, 2011

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Hi all,
I started another page over at wordpress.com!  Don't worry! I won't stop coming here!  I'm just trying to get myself out there even more!  : http://slatersrant.wordpress.com/  Check it out
Arnie

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Have you ever had a day.....

Have you ever had a day where you are bombarded by random thoughts that stir up memories from the past? It happened to me just the other day. In the middle of dictating a test to a bunch of students I was struck with an image from a long time ago...

It was a frigid Christmas Eve evening; dark and cold. I was young,maybe five or six. My family had gone out somewhere together to pass the evening before Christmas. We were on our way home and I remember laying down in the back of my grandfather's big, beautiful, black, Buick Riviera. It had black leather interior. It was HUGE! I was not, so it was easy for me to stretch and look out of the car door window and up at the cold night sky as the bright full moon seemed to be following me home...on a cold Christmas Eve...The black leather of the seat under my head was cold. I could see my breath in the air by the moonlight in the car before the heat from the heat vents reached the backseat. I just lay there watching the moon chase me in my "Pop,Pop's" car on A cold Christmas Eve...and I fell asleep.

Now I have no idea why that image would pop into my head in the middle of a test in April almost forty years later...but there it was. the image is so strong that it has not left me yet...So I had to write it down...I could probably draw the image of the moon floating by the car door window...Do you think it's possible to capture the warmth within that frigid evening? The contrasts it presents is an interesting thought! shoot! I can almost smell my grandfathers pipe too!